CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal
Our Commitment to Research
The University of Pennsylvania was founded on the principle of uncompromising scholarship and its practical application. True to this tradition, the University has long been recognized as one of the nation's leading research institutions. Penn's College of Arts and Sciences is proud to be among the first to formally support and encourage its undergraduate students to participate in meaningful research with faculty mentors. The College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal presents a sampling of that research and celebrates the academic achievements of our young scholars.
Papers from 2013
A Marriage Made in Heaven, Now Destined for Doom? The Long-Term Prospects for the New Right, Courtney E. Albini
A Tale of Two Movements: Consumer Protection in the U.S. from 1969 to 2010, Diya Berger
The Woman Question in Revolutionary Cuba: Is Marxism Really Working for Women?, Lillian SK Gomperts
Genetically Modified Organisms and Southern African Food Policy, Andrew J. Leahey
From Beijing to Baghdad: Stability and Decision-making in Sino-Iraqi Relations, 1958-2012, Scott J. Lee
Virtual Pakistan 2013: An Agent-based Modeling Analysis, Quratul-Ann Malik
In Defense of Sovereignty: An Analysis of Russian Voting Behavior in the United Nations Security Council (1995-2012), Brian Zachary Mund
The People's Liberation Army Navy: The Motivations Behind Beijing's Naval Modernization, Binh Nguyen
European Disintegration: Anti-Greek Bias in the Eurozone Crisis, Eleni Pavlakis
No School Left Uncorrupted: How Cheating, High-Stakes Testing, and Declining Budgets Affected Student Achievement in Philadelphia, James R. Sadler
Revolutions In Military Affairs: A Theory On First-Mover Advantage, Andrew Bernard Silverstein
The Other Pro-Israel Lobby: The Mearsheimer and Walt Controversy and the Rise of J Street, Maya Spitzer
The Effects of Private Walls on Relationships Across Class and Race in the New South Africa, Daniel Torrington
American Communism and Cold War Censorship: The Creation of a New American Citizen, Matthew P. Valdespino
Papers from 2012
No Longer Dhimmis: How European Intervention in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Empowered Copts in Egypt, Patrick Victor Elyas
The Switch In Time That Saved Nine: A Study of Justice Owen Roberts's Vote in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, Brian T. Goldman
Bowling Online: Examining Social Capital and the Impact of Internet-Generated Interactions, Alon Gur
The IRA's Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland, Meghan M. Hussey
Bureaucracy in Crisis: How the State Department Responded to 9/11, Darina Shtrakhman
Take the Money and Run: Business Influence in the Legislative Process, Jacob T. Silverman
Humanitarian Coordination and Response: International Partnerships in Face of Natural Disasters, Julia C. Wong
Papers from 2011
Proposition 8: Religion, Morality Politics and California's Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Nathalie Jill Kun Baker
ROMA SURRECTA: Portrait of a Counterinsurgent Power, 216 BC - AD 72, Emerson T. Brooking
The Unintended Political Consequences of Higher Education in the PRC, Allison Carroll Goldman
Multilateral Intervention in Intrastate Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Bosnia, Somalia, and Darfur, Yuri S. Fuchs
How Congresswomen of Color Affect Policymaking in the U.S.: 110th - 111th Congress, Chiyel R. Hayles
Cousins Across the Pond: Crises in Westminster and the Parliamentary Model's Usefulness for Reform of the U.S. Model, Cory J. Krasnoff
Does It Still Matter? The Impact of the Vietnam Syndrome on American Foreign Policy, Jeanne Michele Mariani
Women's Participation in Peacebuilding: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle?, Mary K. McCarthy
Roads of War: Paved Highways and the Rise of IED Attacks in Afghanistan, Evan W. Medina
Game Changers in US Defense Strategy: An Examination of the Causes Behind the Increased Emphasis on Irregular Warfare Since 9/11, Jessica Parisi
Democratic Political Socialization on University Campuses, Amit B. Patel
Bringing Down the House: The Causes and Effects of the Decline of Personal Relationships in the U.S. House of Representatives, Evan Philipson
Political Opportunity and the TEA Party – Why and Where TEA Party Protests Occurred, Daniel Rudofsky
The Military Dimensions of Post-Cold War US Oil Policy: Access to Oil and Consequences for Geostrategy, Andrew Ryan Schlossberg
Pulled Towards the Seas: Whether China Even Needs "Naval Nationalism" To Challenge US Naval Dominance in the 21st Century, Daniel M. Silverman
Drugs and Revolution: The Effect of Narcotics Revenue on Rebel Group Goals, Gideon Spitzer
First Amendment "Beefs": Agricultural Checkoff Programs and Freedom of Speech, Sarah A. Vaughn
Papers from 2010
The Political Mobilization of the Arab Minority in Israel: Shifts in Political Demands and Activities, Sherihan Abd El Rahman
Health Reform Bill Revised: Can HSAs With HDHPs Save Obamacare?, Marla Becker
True Access: User Benefits to Water in Urban South Africa, Megan K. Calpin
C. F. A. Voysey: The Retrospective Career of the “Pioneer of the Modern Movement", Laura Dean
A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO, Steven J. Friedman
Populism and Liberal Democracies: Why Palin’s Populism Won’t Work, Rebecca Greenfield
Demolition Men: Contemporary Britain and the Battle of Brutalism, Susannah L. Grossman
The Failure of Education Policy in Israel: Politics vs. Bureaucracy, Alexandra F. Leavy
Rethinking Judicialization: Towards a Better Empirical Model, Ryan J. Levan
The Path to Women's Empowerment: Understanding the Rise of the Self Employed Women's Association, Orly T. May
Keeping Score in the 2010 World Cup: How Do Sports Mega-Events Compete with Pro-Poor Development?, Jessica Riegel
A Local Analysis of Regional Differences in Economic Indicators and Electoral Outcomes, Mukul Sharma
The Asian Currency Crisis: The Role of Industrial Policy and Imbalanced Embedded Autonomy, Adrian J. Shin
Why is there No EU Constitution? An Analysis of Institutional Constitution-Making in the European Union, Emily E. Toops
Effective Censorship: Maintaining Control In China, Michelle (Qian) Yang
Papers from 2009
Beyond the Ley de Cupos: The Variation in Gender Empowerment between Argentina and Chile, Ameya S. Ananth
Language Policy and National Unity: The Dilemma of the Kurdish Language in Turkey, Dicle Cemiloglu
Gender and the Presidential "Horserace": An Examination of Candidate Self-Presentation in the 2008 Democratic Primaries, Abigail M. Coyle
The Party Controls the Gun, but How? Institutionalization as a Trend in Chinese Civil-Military Relations, Katherine V. Fleming
USINPAC and the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Lasting Influence or One Shot Victory?, Allison Marz Freedman
The Rapid Sequence of Events Forcing the Senate's Hand: A Reappraisal of the Seventeenth Amendment, 1890-1913, Joseph S. Friedman
The Flat Tax: An Examination of the Baltic States, Deena Greenberg
The Problem of Hylomorphism and Dualism in Avicenna: A Guide to Resolving Other Tensions, Andre M. Gregori
Affordable Housing & Cross-Sector Partnerships: Improving the Bottom Line, Erika S. Herman
The Chinese Primary Care System: Its Evolution, Challenges and Legal Aspects of Reform, Thomas Hou
Towards A Politics of Truths: The Political Theory of Alain Badiou, Thomas A. Huddleston
Congress in Crisis: Destabilizing Events and the American Legislative Process in the Postreform Era, Daniel M. Isaacs
The Puzzling Persistence of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Elizabeth D. King
The Role of Feminine Rhetoric in Male Presidential Discourse: Achieving Speech Purpose, Lindsay R. Larner
Holding Up Half the Sky: Democracy and its Implications for Chinese Women, Annie L. Lee
"The Diversity of Theoretical Classifications: Scholarly Treatment of the Monarchic Political Formula in the Analysis of Modernization Efforts in Pahlavi Iran", Bharat K. Moudgil
Hunger In a Land of Plenty: The Benefits of a Rights-Based Approach to India's Mid Day Meal Scheme, Priya Shankar
Untapped Talent: Finding Ways to Educate America’s Low-Income High-Achieving Students, Kelly M. Siddle
Return of the Bear? The Extent of Russian Revisionism as Applied to Oil and Gas Machinations, Julie Steinberg
Multiple – Wavelength Catalogs of the Point Sources in the South Ecliptic Pole Region Detected by Blast, Jens von der Linden
Crafting Democracy through Constitutional Change: Comparing the Recent Cases of Romania and Serbia in the Context of EU Incentives, Caitlin L. Wood
The Republican Security Logic of NATO Enlargement, Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld
Papers from 2008
"Playing in the Doll's House of Revolution": White Students and Activists Involved in the Black Power Movement, Siobhan C. Atkins
The Guarantor of Unity In a Deeply Divided State: An Analysis of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005, Alyssa C. Casey
Gendered Residential Space, KeAndra D. Dodds
The United States and Northern Ireland: International Pressures as an Impetus for Civil Rights Progress, Erin Escoffery
The Revival of Mishnah Study in the Early Modern Period, David Faleck
Political Polarization in America, Through the Eyes of a President, David Helfenbein
Martyrs in Mesopotamia: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism in Iraq, Brian M. Kelly
Penn Teaches Resiliency: Proposal for a New Psychology-Based Academically Based Community Service Course, Amy Kranzler and Jeremy Price
Battle from the Bottom: The Role of Indigenous AIDS NGOs in Botswana, Robert M. Strain
Neither Right, Nor Left, But French? Historical Legacies, the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Far Right in France, Nadia van de Walle
Gender, Image, and Sound in Letter to Jane, Siwei Zhou
Papers from 2007
Consociationalism in Lebanon, Sara G. Barclay
Mortality of US Troops in the Iraq War, 2003-2006, Emily F. Buzzell
Tree Shadow Series, Rita M. DeAngelo
The Effects of Aging and Brain Damage on Time Perception, Virendra R. Desai
Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's "The Dawn in Erewhon", Patrick Dillon
Educating Undergraduates for Democracy and Efficacy and the 2006 Penn Democracy Project, Max J. Dubin
Information Technology, Regime Stability and Democratic Meaningfulness: A Normative Evaluation of Present and Potential Trends, David A. Fraga
The Spread of Raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion, Josef T. Fruehwald
Lyndon Johnson's Unfinished Legacy: The 1964 State of the Union Address and the "War on Poverty", Jordan M. Grossman
Dissension on the Shores of the Uruguay River: Adjusted Winner, and the Pulp Mill conflict between Argentina and Uruguay, Davis Herron
An Analysis of the Opening Credit Sequence in Film, Melis Inceer
How the Influence of Religion Makes the Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration Revolutionary, and How This Has Affected Our Relations with European Allies , Alexandra Kougentakis
The Semantic View and the Alpha-model, Richard W. Lawrence
Philadelphia's Chinatown: An Ethnic Enclave Economy in a Changing Landscape, Jun Li
Skepticism and Belief In Early-Modern France: The Fideism of Bishop Pierre-Daniel Huet, Anton M. Matytsin
Disaster Response in the United States of America: An Analysis of the Bureaucratic and Political History of a Failing System, Andrew S. Mener
The Color of Industry: Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and Andy Warhol, Jenna C. Moss
Grandchildren as Unifiers in Intergenerational Relations, Mana Nakagawa
Within, Without: New Media and the White Cube, Alexandra T. Nemerov
Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: A Study of African-European Diplomatic Relationships, 1400-1600, Andrea Felber Seligman
The No No-Miracles-Argument Argument, Daniel J. Singer
Aggregating Earnings per Share Forecasts, Greg Slavin
Gender Plus: Toward a More Inclusive Feminism, Corinne M. Smith
How Do We Build Democracy In Iraq? Identifying the Theoretical Foundations of the U.S. Effort to Bring Stable Democracy to Iraq, Philip Tassin
"Tha Realness": In Search of Hip-Hop Authenticity, Jonathan D. Williams
Economic Interdependence and Peace in Transitional Democracies, Alexander Wooten
Papers from 2006
Frames of Mind: Photography, Memory and Identity, Patricia Marcella Anwandter
Cruel to be kind: The role of the evolution of altruistic punishment in sustaining human cooperation in public goods games, Kelly L. Cataldo
Corporate-NGO Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Corinne Damlamian
Artificially Sweetened: An Analysis of the United States Sugar Program, Adam H. Dean
Otaku: Images and Identity in Flux, Joseph L. Dela Pena
Unity in Identity, Disunity in Execution: Expressions of French National Identity at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair, Peter Feldman
"Tee-hee!" Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice through Rebellion and the Ribald in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale, Kathryn M. Fleishman
The role of norepinephrine in spatial reference and spatial working memory, Michael J. Gertner and Steven A. Thomas
In Her Wonderland, Trina E. Gordon
The Theatricality of Transformation: cross-dressing and gender/sexuality spectra on the Elizabethan stage, Sara E. Gorman
"Thus he rode sorowyng": Travel Narratives and the Ethics of Sexual Behavior in Le Morte d'Arthur, Sara E. Gorman
Revisiting the Iron Cage: New Insights in Institutions Theory from Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Michael D. Grosack
Fair Use in Independent Documentary Filmmaking, Margaret Hennefeld
The Aesthetic Politics of Hollywood's Chain Gang in FDR's America, Margaret Hennefeld
La búsqueda del diamante-rubí: Una discusión sobre la emergencia de la mujer paradójicamente ideal en la literatura modernista, Aiesha L. Hill
Creating a World for "As You Like It", Benjamin H. Kamine
Visualizing the Random, Rare, and Jackpot Nature of Genetic Mutations--A Self Portrait, Emily F. Kauvar
Untitled, Victoria L. Kimball
Differentiating the Hype and Substance of Philadelphia's Renaissance, Ji Hea Kim
Perceptual Distortions, Jennifer M. Klein
Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works, Jessica E. Lahrmann
"Account Me Man": Economic Incarnation and Common Wealth in Paradise Lost, Thomas Lay
Asian American Studies: Identity Formation in Korean American Parachute Kids, Albert J. Lee
A Drink from the Group, Livia Levine
Philindustry: The Public Re-Use of Philadelphia's Industrial Landscape, Ethan A. Lipsitz
Guiding Youth to Careers: Do Mentoring Programs Benefit Urban Youth?, Matthew R. Malone
Gallimaufray and Hellebore: Edmund Spenser and Ben Jonson in dialogue with the past, Ruth M. McAdams
Uranium Mining on the Navajo Indian Reservation: An Environmental Examination of the Process and Impact, Caitlin A. McElroy
Augustine and Problems of Scriptural Interpretation, Jessica M. Morton
The People's Republic of China's Development of Strategic Petroleum Stockpiles, Daniel Nieh
Paradigm of Living: Modern Residential Architecture on the East End of Long Island, Tiffany M. Obser
Debt and Development: Exploring the microfinance debate in Senegal, Mallory A. Owen
Una ficción documental: el problema individuo/colectivo en el cine de Imanol Uribe, Adam G. Panopoulos
An Ethnographic Look at Healthcare Choices of the Working Poor, Nicholas Pulos
Advice and Consent: A Four Era Model Exploring the Evolution of the Appointments Clause…, Brian Rosenwald
Inadvertent Educators: Russian Society and Educational Reform during the Reign of Nicholas I, Rachel S. Salzman
The Heavenly Host: Angel Pietàs of the Italian Renaissance, Melissa L. Shive
Silent No Longer: Voices of the 1967 Newark Race Riots, Kimberly Siegal
Loving Thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Place of Judaism in the Identity of the English Unitarians, Jay I. Solomon
Christian Democratic Welfare Politics in the Age of Retrenchment: The CDU and the CSU in Germany - A Comparative Case Study, Lukas F. Streiff
"Dona Nobis Pacem": The Ironic Message of Peace in Britten's War Requiem, Justin C. Tackett
Suds and Selfhood: Marketing the Modern Woman in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's, Ariel Tichnor
Commercial Banks and Microfinance, Zeynep Ugur
Education in a federal system: A case-study of Belgium, Caroline Varin
Iser's Aesthetic Response Theory Viewed in the Context of Collaborative Hyperfictions, Natalie Ward
Killing Fields: Concepts and Processes, James M. Weed
Papers from 2005
Vicious Geography: The Spatial Organization of Prostitution in Twentieth Century Philadelphia, Sarah S. Bertozzi
Becoming a Monarch by Representing One: The Power of Role-play in Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Plays, Emily T. Cuneo
Credit and Co-Wives : exploring empowerment in Senegal, Amelia Duffy-Tumasz
A Neighborhood Threatened: The North 5th Street Corridor and Korean Business Flight, Miji Michelle Park
